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The third and final Hindi Drishyam film. Years after he outwitted the law, Vijay Salgaonkar’s past returns: Meera Deshmukh is back, seeking revenge rather than justice, and a powerful new Crime Branch officer starts testing every alibi Vijay has built. It opened on 2 October 2026 with Ajay Devgn’s biggest opening day.

Ajay Devgn · Tabu · Shriya Saran

A biographical legal drama about public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam and the cases that made his name, from the 1993 Bombay blasts to the 26/11 trial of Ajmal Kasab. Pritam composed the songs and Alokananda Dasgupta the background score. In theatres since 16 October 2026.

Rajkummar Rao · Wamiqa Gabbi · Lalit Prabhakar

A fantasy horror-comedy set in Meerut. Mohini arrives as a new daughter-in-law and the household starts to wonder whether she is a daayan. Balaji Mohan directs from a script by Himanshu Sharma and Divy Nidhi Sharma. In theatres since 16 October 2026, where it has out-earned Prahaar in its first week despite mixed reviews.

Yami Gautam · Addinath M. Kothare · Sunita Rajwar

A spy comedy. Outlook’s 1 October note described Bilal as a Pakistani spy who loses his memory and believes he is an Indian counter-terror officer. The date moved from 9 October to 23 October 2026.

Ayushmann Khurrana · Sara Ali Khan · Rahul Bose

Sonakshi Sinha and Zaheer Iqbal’s first film as leads together after their marriage. The plot was still under wraps in early October. Karan Rawal writes and directs. 23 October 2026.

Sonakshi Sinha · Zaheer Iqbal

A family film set in 1990s Goa. A seven-year-old wants a younger brother and tries to pull his parents closer. 23 October 2026.

Hridansh Parekh · Gulshan Devaiah · Rasika Dugal

Nitesh Tiwari’s two-part screen Ramayana, produced by Namit Malhotra. Part One releases worldwide on 5 November 2026, including IMAX screens, with advance bookings opened on Dussehra. Ranbir Kapoor plays Rama, Sai Pallavi Sita, Yash Ravana and Sunny Deol Hanuman; Anupam Kher voices Jatayu.

Ranbir Kapoor · Sai Pallavi · Yash

Sooraj Barjatya’s family romance, with Ayushmann Khurrana and Sharvari. Dated 27 November 2026.

Ayushmann Khurrana · Sharvari · Anupam Kher

An action thriller directed by Aditya Datt, pairing Emraan Hashmi with Genelia Deshmukh, with Aparshakti Khurana. It is produced by Deepak Mukut’s Soham Rockstar Entertainment and is dated for a worldwide release on 27 November 2026.

Emraan Hashmi · Genelia Deshmukh · Aparshakti Khurana

A biographical drama on Vithabai Narayangaonkar, the Marathi tamasha and lavani performer. Laxman Utekar directs. Shraddha Kapoor leads. 4 December 2026.

Shraddha Kapoor · Randeep Hooda · Nana Patekar

Shah Rukh Khan’s Christmas action film, directed by Siddharth Anand. The October 2026 cast lists also include Suhana Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan and Anil Kapoor. Dated 24 December 2026.

Shah Rukh Khan · Suhana Khan · Deepika Padukone

Two small-time fighters are hired by a retired officer to bring in a dacoit. It was not an instant monster hit, and then it became the film Hindi cinema is still measured against. Ramesh Sippy directs. Salim–Javed write. Gabbar Singh is Amjad Khan.

Amitabh Bachchan · Dharmendra · Hema Malini

Raj and Simran meet on a European trip. Her father has already promised her to someone else. Aditya Chopra’s film, produced by Yash Raj, is the romantic template a generation of Hindi cinema copied, including the rule that the father has to say yes.

Shah Rukh Khan · Kajol · Amrish Puri

Three engineering students, a cruel definition of success, and a missing friend. Rajkumar Hirani directs. It is loosely drawn from Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone; the film and the novelist later fought in public about how loose that debt was. The film itself is still the one families rewatch.

Aamir Khan · R. Madhavan · Sharman Joshi

A village in 1893 takes on the British at cricket, with the year’s tax as the stake. Ashutosh Gowariker directs. It was nominated for the Oscar for best international film.

Aamir Khan · Gracy Singh

Mahavir Singh Phogat trains his daughters to wrestle, against the village and against his own harshness. Nitesh Tiwari directs. Fatima Sana Shaikh and Sanya Malhotra play the adult sisters.

Aamir Khan · Fatima Sana Shaikh · Sanya Malhotra

An alien lands in Rajasthan and tries to understand God as humans sell it. Rajkumar Hirani’s satire, with Aamir Khan and Anushka Sharma.

Aamir Khan · Anushka Sharma · Sushant Singh Rajput

Radha holds a village household together through debt, flood and a son who breaks. Mehboob Khan directs. Nargis’s performance is the centre of the film. It was India’s first Oscar nominee for best international film.

Nargis · Sunil Dutt · Rajendra Kumar

Prince Salim and Anarkali, and an emperor who will not allow the match. K. Asif spent years building it. The Madhubala–Dilip Kumar scenes are still the standard for a doomed Hindi romance.

Prithviraj Kapoor · Dilip Kumar · Madhubala

A tourist guide, a dancer leaving her marriage, and a man who is mistaken for a holy man. Vijay Anand directs. S. D. Burman’s songs are half the reason it lasts. Based on R. K. Narayan’s novel.

Dev Anand · Waheeda Rehman

A devout Hanuman bhakt tries to take a lost, speechless Pakistani girl home. Kabir Khan directs. It is Salman Khan’s film on this all-time list because the performance is in service of the child, not the other way around.

Salman Khan · Harshaali Malhotra · Kareena Kapoor Khan

Ishaan cannot read the way his school demands. A substitute teacher works out why. Aamir Khan directs and plays Nikumbh. Amole Gupte writes. Darsheel Safary plays the boy.

Darsheel Safary · Aamir Khan

A NASA scientist comes home to find the woman who raised him, and stays long enough to see what the village actually needs. Ashutosh Gowariker directs. It was not the biggest earner of its year. It is the Shah Rukh Khan performance people now put beside DDLJ.

Shah Rukh Khan · Gayatri Joshi

Three friends in Mumbai, and the relationships that stop them being boys. Farhan Akhtar’s first film changed how urban Hindi cinema sounded.

Aamir Khan · Saif Ali Khan · Akshaye Khanna

A bachelor trip through Spain that is really about three men who have not been honest with each other. Zoya Akhtar directs. The road movie that a decade of friendship films tried to repeat.

Hrithik Roshan · Farhan Akhtar · Abhay Deol

Rani’s fiancé calls off the wedding. She goes on the honeymoon alone. Vikas Bahl directs. Kangana Ranaut plays Rani. The film is dated 2013 in production chatter and opened in March 2014; this page uses the release year people search, 2014, in the body and keeps the common ‘2013 film’ label in the title year as 2014.

Kangana Ranaut · Rajkummar Rao

A deaf young man in Darjeeling, and two women whose lives cross his. Anurag Basu directs. Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and Ileana D’Cruz lead.

Ranbir Kapoor · Priyanka Chopra Jonas · Ileana D'Cruz

A pianist who pretends to be blind sees a crime he cannot admit he saw. Sriram Raghavan directs. Ayushmann Khurrana and Tabu lead. One of the tightest Hindi thrillers of the 2010s.

Ayushmann Khurrana · Tabu · Radhika Apte

A student from Dharavi wants a life as a rapper. Inspired by the real Mumbai rappers Divine and Naezy, not a biopic of either. Zoya Akhtar directs.

Ranveer Singh · Alia Bhatt · Siddhant Chaturvedi

A rich Delhi family splits when the adopted son marries against his father’s wish. Karan Johar directs. It is melodrama at full volume, and it is the family film a huge diaspora audience still puts on.

Amitabh Bachchan · Jaya Bachchan · Shah Rukh Khan

Hamlet, set in Kashmir in 1995. Vishal Bhardwaj directs, with Basharat Peer co-writing. Shahid Kapoor and Tabu lead. It is the most serious film on this all-time list, and it is here for that reason.

Shahid Kapoor · Tabu · Kay Kay Menon

A RAW agent pulled back into the field goes after a rogue former agent. Yash Raj produced it as part of the spy universe that also includes War and Tiger. It was the film that put Shah Rukh Khan back at the top of the box office after several years away.

Shah Rukh Khan · Deepika Padukone · John Abraham

Atlee’s Hindi debut. Shah Rukh Khan plays a double lead in a prison-and-vigilante story aimed at public corruption. Nayanthara and Vijay Sethupathi are in the principal cast. Deepika Padukone appears in a special role. Red Chillies produced it.

Shah Rukh Khan · Nayanthara · Vijay Sethupathi

The story of Manoj Kumar Sharma, who fails school and still reaches the Indian Police Service. Vidhu Vinod Chopra directs from Anurag Pathak’s nonfiction book. It is a small film that outlasted most of the bigger releases of its year.

Vikrant Massey · Medha Shankar · Anant Vijay Joshi

The sequel to the 2018 Maddock horror comedy. The same Chanderi company returns when a new spirit starts taking women’s heads. Amar Kaushik directs. It opened on Independence Day 2024 and became one of the year’s biggest Hindi films.

Rajkummar Rao · Shraddha Kapoor · Pankaj Tripathi

A disgraced men’s hockey captain is given the women’s national team, a squad the board does not expect to take seriously. Jaideep Sahni wrote it. Yash Raj produced it. It is the Shah Rukh Khan film people name when they want him as a coach rather than as a lover.

Shah Rukh Khan

A British filmmaker comes to India to shoot the story of Bhagat Singh’s friends and ends up casting a group of Delhi students who do not think the past has anything to do with them. A. R. Rahman scored it. It opened on Republic Day 2006.

Aamir Khan · Siddharth · Sharman Joshi

A Mumbai gangster joins medical college to win back his father’s respect. Rajkumar Hirani’s first film. Vidhu Vinod Chopra produced it. The sequel, Lage Raho Munna Bhai, came in 2006. This page is the 2003 original.

Sanjay Dutt · Arshad Warsi · Gracy Singh

The Peshwa Bajirao’s marriage to Mastani, and the house that will not accept her, told as a Sanjay Leela Bhansali spectacle. Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra lead. It opened in December 2015.

Ranveer Singh · Deepika Padukone · Priyanka Chopra

The first Hindi Drishyam. A cable operator in Goa builds a cover story after a crime reaches his family. Nishikant Kamat directed this remake. Ajay Devgn and Tabu lead. Drishyam 2 and the 2026 film Drishyam: The Conclusion continue the same family.

Ajay Devgn · Tabu · Shriya Saran

A pregnant woman arrives in Kolkata looking for a husband the city has no record of. Sujoy Ghosh directs. Vidya Balan leads. It is a thriller built on the city’s streets rather than on a star entrance.

Vidya Balan · Parambrata Chatterjee · Nawazuddin Siddiqui

A Delhi architect and her ageing father drive to Kolkata with a taxi owner who did not agree to a family. Juhi Chaturvedi wrote it. Shoojit Sircar directed. The joke is domestic and bodily, and the film never turns the father into a saint.

Deepika Padukone · Amitabh Bachchan · Irrfan Khan

A Delhi college musician is told he cannot be a real artist until he has suffered. Imtiaz Ali directs. A. R. Rahman wrote the songs, with lyrics by Irshad Kamil. Ranbir Kapoor plays Jordan. The album outlived the arguments about the film.

Ranbir Kapoor · Nargis Fakhri

Bhansali’s version of the Padmavati legend: a queen, a Rajput king, and Alauddin Khilji’s siege. The title was changed from Padmavati before release after months of protest. Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh and Shahid Kapoor lead.

Deepika Padukone · Ranveer Singh · Shahid Kapoor

Four friends, a trek, and a wedding years later. Ayan Mukerji directs. Dharma produced it. It is the travel romance a lot of viewers still put on, and it is the Ranbir–Deepika film people mean if they do not mean Tamasha.

Ranbir Kapoor · Deepika Padukone · Aditya Roy Kapur

A quiet businessman and a talkative woman miss their trains and end up on the road to Punjab. Imtiaz Ali’s breakthrough romance. Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor Khan lead. The songs are still played at weddings.

Shahid Kapoor · Kareena Kapoor Khan

Three women in Delhi are dragged into a case after a night that a powerful family wants described their way. Amitabh Bachchan plays the lawyer who takes it. Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury directs. Ritesh Shah wrote it. The argument of the film is consent.

Amitabh Bachchan · Taapsee Pannu · Kirti Kulhari

A Haryana wrestler loses the match that mattered, and the marriage, and has to come back older. Ali Abbas Zafar wrote and directed it for Yash Raj. Salman Khan and Anushka Sharma lead. It was one of the biggest Hindi openings of 2016.

Salman Khan · Anushka Sharma

A junior artist in 1970s Bombay loves a star, dies, and is reborn into the industry that killed the story. Farah Khan directs. It is Deepika Padukone’s first Hindi lead. The film is a comedy about the movies and, underneath that, a reincarnation revenge.

Shah Rukh Khan · Deepika Padukone · Arjun Rampal

A man who knows he is dying sorts out a neighbour’s family and her love life in New York. Nikhil Advani’s first film, produced by Karan Johar. Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta and Saif Ali Khan lead. The title song is still played at farewells.

Shah Rukh Khan · Preity Zinta · Saif Ali Khan

A city-bred IPS officer is posted to rural Uttar Pradesh and finds a case the local police would rather not name. The title is the Constitution’s equality article. Anubhav Sinha directs. Ayushmann Khurrana leads.

Ayushmann Khurrana · Isha Talwar · Sayani Gupta

Karan Johar’s first film. A college triangle becomes, eight years later, a father’s attempt to keep a promise to his wife. Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol lead. Salman Khan plays Aman. It is one of the films that fixed the late-1990s Dharma look.

Shah Rukh Khan · Kajol · Rani Mukerji

Bhansali’s version of Sarat Chandra’s novel. Devdas, barred from marrying Paro, drinks himself toward the courtesan Chandramukhi and the house he cannot re-enter. Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit lead.

Shah Rukh Khan · Aishwarya Rai · Madhuri Dixit

Rizwan Khan, a Muslim man with Asperger’s, crosses America after 9/11 to tell the president that his name is Khan and he is not a terrorist. Karan Johar directs. Shibani Bathija wrote it. Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol lead.

Shah Rukh Khan · Kajol

A corrupt-and-charming Uttar Pradesh policeman, Chulbul Pandey, and the brother and the politician he is actually at war with. Abhinav Kashyap directs. The film reset Salman Khan’s box office after Wanted and produced two sequels.

Salman Khan · Sonakshi Sinha · Arbaaz Khan

Sooraj Barjatya’s first film, produced by Rajshri. Prem, the rich son, falls in love with Suman, the daughter of his father’s employee. It made Salman Khan a star. The pigeon and the song “Dil Deewana” are still the shorthand for the film.

Salman Khan · Bhagyashree · Alok Nath

Two families, a wedding, and a second match that grief almost stops. Rajshri and Sooraj Barjatya again. Salman Khan and Madhuri Dixit lead. For years it was the highest-grossing Hindi film, and it is still the family-wedding film other family-wedding films copy.

Salman Khan · Madhuri Dixit · Mohnish Bahl

The second half of the Baahubali story, set in a fictional medieval India. It returns to the kingdom of Mahishmati and the rivalry between two princes raised as brothers, the beloved Amarendra Baahubali and the envious Bhallaladeva, and shows why the loyal warrior Kattappa did what the first film left hanging. Years later, Amarendra's son sets out to settle the account.

Prabhas · Rana Daggubati · Anushka Shetty

Sivudu is an adventurous young man raised by villagers at the foot of a great waterfall. Climbing it, he finds Avanthika, a rebel fighting the tyrant king Bhallaladeva, and helps her try to free Devasena, a princess of Kunthala held prisoner in Bhallaladeva's capital. Along the way Sivudu begins to learn who he really is.

Prabhas · Rana Daggubati · Anushka Shetty

A fictional story about two real freedom fighters of the pre-independence era, Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem. Rajamouli imagines them meeting in 1920s Delhi, one a policeman serving the British, the other a tribal leader on a secret mission, and becoming friends without knowing they stand on opposite sides.

N. T. Rama Rao Jr. · Ram Charan · Ajay Devgn

Rocky, the street kid who rose to rule the gold fields of Kolar at the end of Chapter 1, now holds the mines and the loyalty of the workers. His empire draws enemies: Adheera, a ruthless rival with a claim of his own, and Ramika Sen, a politician whose power is growing fast. The story is told as a narrator recounts it years later.

Yash · Sanjay Dutt · Raveena Tandon

Pushpa Raj began as a labourer and became the most powerful red sandalwood smuggler in the forests of Andhra Pradesh. Now he wants more, and his enemies are lining up, led by SP Bhanwar Singh Shekhawat. The sequel follows how Pushpa means to rule, and what it costs the people around him.

Allu Arjun · Rashmika Mandanna · Fahadh Faasil

Ranvijay Singh has spent his life craving the attention of his father, Balbir, a powerful industrialist who has little time for him. After years abroad, Ranvijay hears that someone has tried and failed to kill Balbir. He comes home and sets out on a ruthless hunt for the people behind it.

Ranbir Kapoor · Anil Kapoor · Bobby Deol

The sequel to Gadar: Ek Prem Katha, subtitled The Katha Continues. It is 1971, and India and Pakistan are at war. Tara Singh, who once crossed the border to bring his wife home, has to cross it again, this time to rescue his son Jeete, who is imprisoned in Pakistan.

Sunny Deol · Ameesha Patel · Utkarsh Sharma

A film about the actor Sanjay Dutt, focused on his drug addiction, his arrest over a suspected link to the 1993 Bombay bombings, his relationship with his father Sunil Dutt and his acting career. His wife persuades the London-based biographer Winnie Diaz to tell his true story, and the film moves between her interviews and the life itself.

Ranbir Kapoor · Vicky Kaushal · Paresh Rawal

Kabir, one of India's best RAW agents, appears to have gone rogue, killing an official he was meant to protect. His former protege Khalid is given the job of hunting him down. Mentor and student chase each other across the world, and Khalid has to work out why the man who trained him has turned.

Hrithik Roshan · Tiger Shroff · Vaani Kapoor

Based on the life of Sambhaji, the second ruler of the Maratha Empire, and adapted from Shivaji Sawant's Marathi novel Chhava. The film opens as news of Shivaji's death reaches the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, and follows Sambhaji as he takes up his father's fight against the empire.

Vicky Kaushal · Akshaye Khanna · Rashmika Mandanna

The year is 2898 AD and the city of Kashi is a dystopia. A lab subject known as SUM-80 is carrying a child believed to be Kalki, the final incarnation of Vishnu. A group sets out to protect her, the immortal Ashwatthama senses something divine in her, and a bounty hunter called Bhairava has his own reasons for wanting her found.

Prabhas · Amitabh Bachchan · Kamal Haasan

In 1990, a Chicago bank forces Iqbal Khan to close his Great Indian Circus, and he takes his own life in front of his young son, Sahir. Years later, someone is robbing branches of the same bank. Mumbai police officers Jai and Ali, of the earlier Dhoom films, are brought in to catch a thief who performs like a circus act.

Aamir Khan · Abhishek Bachchan · Uday Chopra

During the Partition of India in 1947, Tara Singh, a Sikh truck driver, saves Sakina, a Muslim woman he knew in her college days, from a mob. They fall in love and marry. Then Sakina is taken back to Pakistan by her family, and Tara sets out to cross the new border to find her.

Sunny Deol · Ameesha Patel · Amrish Puri

In a fictionalised Punjab of no fixed period, the Natt clan wipes out the family of their rival, Sardar Jatt. His young son Maula survives and is raised by a woman named Daani, grows into a famous wrestler, and is haunted at night by a past he cannot remember. Then the Natts, led by the feared Noori Natt, cross his path again.

Fawad Khan · Hamza Ali Abbasi · Mahira Khan

Fawad Khagga comes home to Faisalabad after his master's degree in Lahore, determined to marry for love. His cousin Durdana loves him; he does not love her back. His heart is set on Amal Dastoor, just back from studying economics in London, who has other plans. A love triangle plays out against the farms and family pride of rural Punjab.

Humayun Saeed · Mehwish Hayat · Urwa Hocane

The friends from the first Jawani Phir Nahi Ani are back, older but not much wiser. Sherry, Pipi and Sheikh are pulled into a new round of wedding chaos, disguises and misunderstandings that stretches from Pakistan to Istanbul. Fahad Mustafa joins as Rahat, Pipi's brother-in-law, with Kubra Khan and Mawra Hocane as new romantic complications.

Humayun Saeed · Ahmed Ali Butt · Fahad Mustafa

In 1996, a treasure hunter searching the wreck of the Titanic finds a drawing of a young woman wearing a lost diamond necklace. The woman, now over a hundred, comes forward and tells her story: in April 1912, as a first-class passenger engaged to a man she did not love, she met Jack, a penniless artist travelling in third class.

Leonardo DiCaprio · Kate Winslet · Billy Zane

In 2154, with Earth exhausted, a mining company digs for a precious mineral on Pandora, a lush moon home to the tall, blue-skinned Na'vi. Scientists explore it through avatars, Na'vi bodies controlled by human minds. Jake Sully, a paralysed former Marine, takes his late twin's place in the programme and is sent among the Na'vi.

Sam Worthington · Zoe Saldaña · Sigourney Weaver

Thanos has wiped out half of all life in the universe, and the Avengers who survived are left to live with their failure. When a way to undo it appears, the remaining heroes, old and new, come together for one last attempt to bring everyone back, revisiting moments and places from across the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Robert Downey Jr. · Chris Evans · Mark Ruffalo

The sequel to Ne Zha (2019), drawn from Chinese legend and the 16th-century novel Investiture of the Gods. After a disaster destroys their bodies, Ne Zha and his friend Ao Bing, the dragon prince, survive as souls. Ne Zha's body is rebuilt, and Ao Bing's spirit has to share it, while the Dragon Kings and Taoist immortals close in on Chentang Pass.

Lü Yanting · Joseph Cao · Han Mo

Five years after Ek Tha Tiger, the Indian agent Tiger and the Pakistani agent Zoya are living in hiding. Then a terrorist group seizes a hospital in Iraq and takes a group of nurses hostage. Tiger is pulled back in, and he and Zoya lead a joint team to get the nurses out.

Salman Khan · Katrina Kaif · Sajjad Delafrooz

A banker sentenced to life for a double murder he says he did not commit forms a decades-long friendship with a fellow prisoner at Shawshank State Penitentiary.

Tim Robbins · Morgan Freeman · Bob Gunton

A young hobbit inherits a ring that turns out to be the weapon of a dark lord, and sets out with eight companions to destroy it.

Elijah Wood · Ian McKellen · Viggo Mortensen

With the Fellowship scattered, Frodo and Sam take Gollum as a guide to Mordor while their friends are drawn into the defence of Rohan.

Elijah Wood · Ian McKellen · Viggo Mortensen

As Sauron's armies march on Gondor, Aragorn faces his destiny and Frodo and Sam make the last climb toward Mount Doom.

Elijah Wood · Ian McKellen · Viggo Mortensen

Scientists invited to approve an island theme park of cloned dinosaurs discover how little of it is under control.

Sam Neill · Laura Dern · Jeff Goldblum

Batman, Lieutenant Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent face the Joker, a criminal who wants to prove anyone can be broken.

Christian Bale · Heath Ledger · Aaron Eckhart

A farm boy, a smuggler, a princess and two droids join a rebellion against an Empire that has built a planet-destroying battle station.

Mark Hamill · Harrison Ford · Carrie Fisher

An orphaned boy learns he is a wizard and begins his first year at Hogwarts, where something valuable is hidden behind a locked door.

Daniel Radcliffe · Rupert Grint · Emma Watson

A thief who steals secrets from dreams is offered his old life back if he can plant an idea in a target's mind instead.

Leonardo DiCaprio · Ken Watanabe · Joseph Gordon-Levitt

A lion cub heir to the Pride Lands is driven into exile after a family tragedy, and must decide whether to return and face his uncle Scar.

Matthew Broderick · Jonathan Taylor Thomas · Jeremy Irons